| domain | archive |
|---|---|
| title | Himalaya |
| verification | metadata-normalized |
| source | skill-pipeline |
| status | draft |
| created | 2026-05-09 |
(此 lesson 从 skill himalaya 自动提取,待补全)
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Himalaya is a CLI email client that lets you manage emails from the terminal using IMAP, SMTP, Notmuch, or Sendmail backends.
references/configuration.md(config file setup + IMAP/SMTP authentication)references/message-composition.md(MML syntax for composing emails)
- Himalaya CLI installed (
himalaya --versionto verify) - A configuration file at
~/.config/himalaya/config.toml - IMAP/SMTP credentials configured (password stored securely)
# Pre-built binary (Linux/macOS — recommended)
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pimalaya/himalaya/master/install.sh | PREFIX=~/.local sh
# macOS via Homebrew
brew install himalaya
# Or via cargo (any platform with Rust)
cargo install himalaya --lockedRun the interactive wizard to set up an account:
himalaya account configureOr create ~/.config/himalaya/config.toml manually:
[accounts.personal]
email = "you@example.com"
display-name = "Your Name"
default = true
backend.type = "imap"
backend.host = "imap.example.com"
backend.port = 993
backend.encryption.type = "tls"
backend.login = "you@example.com"
backend.auth.type = "password"
backend.auth.cmd = "pass show email/imap" # or use keyring
message.send.backend.type = "smtp"
message.send.backend.host = "smtp.example.com"
message.send.backend.port = 587
message.send.backend.encryption.type = "start-tls"
message.send.backend.login = "you@example.com"
message.send.backend.auth.type = "password"
message.send.backend.auth.cmd = "pass show email/smtp"
# Folder aliases (himalaya v1.2.0+ syntax). Required whenever the
# server's folder names don't match himalaya's canonical names
# (inbox/sent/drafts/trash). Gmail is the common case — see
# `references/configuration.md` for the `[Gmail]/Sent Mail` mapping.
folder.aliases.inbox = "INBOX"
folder.aliases.sent = "Sent"
folder.aliases.drafts = "Drafts"
folder.aliases.trash = "Trash"Heads up on the alias syntax. Pre-v1.2.0 docs used a
[accounts.NAME.folder.alias]sub-section (singularalias). v1.2.0 silently ignores that form — TOML parses fine, but the alias resolver never reads it, so every lookup falls through to the canonical name. On Gmail this means save-to-Sent fails after SMTP delivery succeeds, andhimalaya message sendexits non-zero. Any caller (agent, script, user) that retries on that exit code will re-run the entire send — including SMTP — producing duplicate emails to recipients. Always usefolder.aliases.X(plural, dotted keys, directly under[accounts.NAME]).
- Reading, listing, searching, moving, deleting all work directly through the terminal tool
- Composing/replying/forwarding — piped input (
cat << EOF | himalaya template send) is recommended for reliability. Interactive$EDITORmode works withpty=true+ background + process tool, but requires knowing t
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